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NUTRITIONAL scientists once assumed that if a food contained a good deal of a particular nutrient it was a good dietary source of that nutrient. This undoubtedly accounted for the reputation of spinach as a food rich in iron and calcium that children should eat if they want to be strong. In...

THOUGH much is suspected, relatively little is known about the health effects of peppery foods. In general, hot, spicy foods are stimulants. They stimulate the circulation and raise body temperature. If you are living in a hot climate, the increase in body temperature can make you feel cooler by...

November 24, 1981, Tuesday - By ANN CRITTENDEN, Special to the New York Times - Financial Desk - 2020 Words

The very name of the country, Bangladesh, stirs images of misery and, in the minds of most Westerners, the perennial poverty here is the result of some inexorable Asian fate. Cyclones, floods, war and, above all, overpopulation are blamed for the destitution and malnutrition in this fertile...